The case

Chief suspended in Rome, the Region as civil plaintiff. Rocca: "We will act without discount"

The ASL Roma 2 has announced that it has suspended from duty - on 5 December - Roberto Palumbo, the head of Nephrology at the Sant'Eugenio hospital in Rome

by Rome Editorial Staff

10 December 2025

Il primario di Nefrologia dell'ospedale Sant'Eugenio Roberto Palumbo arrestato con l'accusa di corruzione nell'ambito di una indagine che vede coinvolte 12 persone. Facebook/Associazione Malati di Reni aps + ATTENZIONE LA FOTO NON PUO' ESSERE PUBBLICATA O RIPRODOTTA SENZA L'AUTORIZZAZIONE DELLA FONTE DI ORIGINE CUI SI RINVIA + NPK

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Key points

The Local Health Authority: 'Disciplinary committee set up'
The order and possible appeal
Lazio Region civil party

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After the arrest in flagrante delicto and, therefore, the provision of house arrest, the ASL Roma 2 announced that it had suspended from duty Roberto Palumbo, the head of Nephrology at the Sant'Eugenio hospital in Rome, after the three thousand euro bribe pocketed by the businessman Maurizio Terra, who is also under house arrest.

The Local Health Authority: 'Disciplinary committee established'

The healthcare company is 'following developments in the investigation very closely, with full respect for the work of the investigators and institutional transparency' and 'is ready to provide any support necessary to facilitate the rapid investigation of the case'.

Not only that, but he has set up a special disciplinary commission. Which joins the judicial one for corruption and which sees 12 people entered in the register of suspects.

The order and the possible appeal

The Rome gip's order, regarding the chief physician's bribes, speaks of 'an oiled mechanism that had been going on for years. A system of sorting dialysis patients with precise rules'.

Palumbo, it says, 'had control over the destination of patients to the various centres' and would direct them 'in order to reach the maximum allowed to the Dilaeur, a facility of which he has, in fact, a 60 per cent share'.

Investigators reconstructed movements of money amounting to approximately EUR 120,000, in addition to a flat near St Peter's, a leased Mercedes, three credit cards and a EUR 2,500 a month contract for the head physician's companion.

Palumbo's lawyers, meanwhile, have started to consider anappeal to the judicial review to challenge the arrest order.

Lazio Region as civil plaintiff

For the President of the Lazio Region, Francesco Rocca, 'what has been discovered is a horrible thing'. Moreover, he announced that 'there will also be an in-depth investigation into the structures involved' for a 'possible suspension of accreditations' and that the Region will constitute itself as a civil party at the trial.

Rocca emphasised that checks on accreditations will have to proceed with caution so as not to compromise the health of patients, but warned that "with those who pollute the public administration you cannot have relations. We have to move with caution because it is not as if we close down overnight. But we will act without discounts for anyone'.